Privacy Policy

SHIZAM.ca is operated by SHIZAM Limited, a Canadian corporation. This Privacy Policy explains how SHIZAM.ca handles information when visitors access this website.

SHIZAM.ca is a public reference encyclopedia. Visitors can read the website without creating an account, subscribing to an email list, purchasing a product, joining a member area, or submitting personal information.

1. Public Reference Website

SHIZAM.ca does not offer reader accounts, member profiles, comment accounts, email newsletter subscriptions, gated content, reader login features, or personalized user dashboards.

The website is designed as a one-way public reference resource. Ordinary readers are not asked to submit personal information in order to access the encyclopedia.

SHIZAM.ca is not operated as a lead-generation site, email-marketing funnel, consultation platform, or member-data platform.

2. Technical Information and Analytics

Like most websites, SHIZAM.ca may process limited technical information when visitors access the site. This may include IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages visited, date and time of visit, server logs, security data, and performance data.

SHIZAM.ca may use website analytics tools to understand general traffic patterns, article performance, referral sources, and page navigation patterns.

This information is used to operate, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, measure, and improve the website. SHIZAM does not use this information to provide individualized medical advice, build reader health profiles, operate reader accounts, or provide personalized health recommendations.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

SHIZAM.ca may use limited cookies or similar technologies for basic website functionality, security, caching, performance, WordPress operation, administrator access, and website analytics.

Website analytics tools may use cookies or similar technologies to collect technical and usage information, such as page views, device information, browser information, approximate location, referral source, and interaction data.

Visitors can usually control or disable cookies through their browser settings. Some website functions or analytics measurement may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

4. Contact and Voluntary Communications

SHIZAM.ca may publish a general contact email address for administrative, editorial, legal, privacy, or business-related inquiries.

SHIZAM.ca is not a consultation service and does not provide personal medical advice, supplement advice, legal advice, regulatory advice, product-use guidance, or individualized research assistance to readers.

Visitors should not send personal medical records, diagnosis details, laboratory results, medication lists, financial information, legal documents, or other sensitive personal information to SHIZAM.

If a visitor voluntarily contacts SHIZAM by email, SHIZAM may receive the information included in that message, such as the sender’s name, email address, message content, and any information the sender chooses to provide. SHIZAM may use that information only to review, respond to, manage, or retain the communication where appropriate.

Contacting SHIZAM does not create a doctor-patient relationship, healthcare professional relationship, legal advisory relationship, confidential advisory relationship, consulting relationship, or individualized service relationship.

5. External Links and Third-Party Sources

SHIZAM articles may link to external sources, including PubMed, medical journals, research databases, regulatory agencies, government websites, academic institutions, professional organizations, and other reference sources.

These links are provided for citation, source transparency, and further reading.

SHIZAM does not control external websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices, security, content, cookies, tracking technologies, or data collection. Visitors should review the privacy policies of external websites they choose to visit.

6. No Sale of Personal Information

SHIZAM does not sell personal information collected from ordinary website visitors.

SHIZAM.ca is not designed to collect reader profiles, subscriber lists, health profiles, member data, or account data.

7. Privacy Rights and Requests

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding personal information, such as the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or information about how personal information is used or disclosed.

Because SHIZAM.ca does not operate reader accounts, member profiles, email subscriptions, or personalized user dashboards, the personal information SHIZAM holds about ordinary visitors is usually limited.

Privacy-related requests may be directed to the contact information below. SHIZAM may need to verify your identity before responding.

8. Children’s Privacy

SHIZAM.ca is not directed to children under the age of 13.

SHIZAM does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If SHIZAM learns that it has collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, it will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

9. Automated Systems, Search Engines, and AI Tools

SHIZAM content may be indexed, summarized, extracted, cited, or displayed by search engines, artificial intelligence systems, browser tools, plugins, and other third-party platforms.

This Privacy Policy applies only to SHIZAM.ca. It does not govern how third-party systems collect, summarize, rank, cite, extract, or present publicly available SHIZAM content.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

SHIZAM may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Continued use of SHIZAM.ca after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.